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...expertise with the latest high-tech artillery was unsurpassed as the original James Bond, but Sean Connery had his hands full playing Malone, the broguish cop in The Untouchables, which finished shooting last week in Chicago. "It's pretty cumbersome," says Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed...
COMBINING THE TALENTS of Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen with those of veteran director Arthur Hiller would seem to promise, if not quite the "very different love story" described by the director, at least an effervescent romp in the style of Arthur. Unfortunately, neither Moore's broguish charm nor Steenburgen's poignant spaciness can save Romantic Comedy from its writer and director. Rather, the actors' valiant attempts to save the show make it all the more perturbing to watch. Observing cast members with their flies inadvertently unzipped for an hour and a half would, in fact, provide a comparable level...
DIED. Patrick Magee, 58, Irish actor who gave broguish voice to Samuel Beckett's muse (Krapp 's Last Tape and several other Beckett plays were written with him in mind) and a 1966 Tony winner for his Marquis de Sade in the Royal Shakespeare Company's New York City production of Marat/Sade; of a heart attack; in London. Magee supported his stage art by playing film heavies, most recently a Colonel Blimpish Olympic Committee member in 1981's Chariots of Fire...
No.1 rosary promoter is big, broguish Father Patrick Peyton, who conducts mass rallies around the world to encourage the use of the rosary in family worship ("The family that prays together stays together"). In San Francisco last week, Father Peyton preached the rosary to some 250,000 people in Golden Gate Park; last year in South America he distributed 1,500,000 rosaries to the poor. Says he: "The rosary has accomplished many great wonders in the world. When recited in the family each day, it is the most powerful weapon in our armory today against the evils that beset...
Died. T/Sgt. Martin Maher, 84, a broguish Irish immigrant whose 50 years of duty at the U.S. Military Academy won him the lifelong affection of West Pointers ranging from John J. Pershing to Dwight Eisenhower, an unprecedented full-dress review of the Corps of Cadets upon his retirement in 1946, and a shiny screen biography (The Long Gray Line) in 1955; of a stroke; at West Point Army Hospital. As a mess waiter, nonswimming swimming coach and gym custodian, Maher was outranked but never outclassed by protégés who worked their way from bars to stars...